[Ham-Mac] Who is *NOT* upgrading to Panther?

[Chris Smolinski]

>On Oct 28, 2003, at 1:20 PM, Brian Short wrote:
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>>I would have to agree.  These upgrades are a bit expensive and
>>they are just "point" upgrades.  I'd pay for OS-11 but this is a fairly
>>big expenditure and so soon, too.
>
>Someone else made this comment to me, about the 'point' upgrade, and I
>offered my opinion that the reason this is only a 'point' upgrade is 
>that Steve wants to milk the 'Mac OS X' moniker for as long as 
>possible.
>
>As far as the upgrade itself, I think it is a major upgrade, it 
>brings a _lot_ of excellent features to the table, and it's worth 
>every dime I paid for it. It's significantly faster on my PowerBook 
>G3 Pismo, even though it brings additional power that I expected to 
>slow it down. One of these days I'll upgrade to a computer that 
>supports Quartz Extreme, and I'll probably like it even more, then.

My G4/400 is much snappier with Panther vs Jaguar, and perhaps it 
will save me from upgrading for a little while. If so, another way 
it's $129 well spent.

>I expected it to break some things, but it hasn't yet. The Palm 
>people said that version 4.1 doesn't run, but it runs for me. Some 
>people are having problems with Eudora, but I had _no_ problems for 
>the brief time I ran it, before I did what I had been planning to do 
>all along, and dumped it for Mail.

Heh, I tried Mail a while back, and dumped it quickly to go back to 
Eudora. No problems there. I've used Eudora for, hmm, about a decade 
now, and don't really feel like changing. But that's just me ;-)

>The Macintosh has never been a cheap platform, and I think we all 
>know that, even though we hang in there because we know that it's a 
>far better choice. I wish I didn't have to pay so much for upgrades, 
>but we skated along for many years on system software that was free, 
>and free upgrades. It's a different economy, now.

If it's a subscription system now, and I need to send Apple $129 
every year or so for the latest and greatest, so be it. It beats the 
alternative.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
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